Senior Legal Counsel (Group Software & Cloud Solutions)

Job Function

Legal & Compliance

The role

Are you ready to shape the contractual frameworks behind global cloud, software, and AI-driven solutions?

Do you thrive on partnering directly with product and commercial leaders to take innovative offerings from concept to global launch?

Are you looking to make a strategic legal impact within a collaborative, fast-paced international technology environment?

Practical InformationLocation: All SoftwareOne EMEA Locations (UK Preferred) | Work Arrangement: Remote working, with occasional travel | Visa Requirements: EU citizenship or valid work permit required | Language Requirements: Fluent English, written and spoken

Role IntroductionAs our new Senior Legal Counsel (Group Software & Cloud Solutions), you will act as a strategic legal business partner to SoftwareOne’s global software, cloud, solutions, and services businesses. Reporting to the Group Software & Cloud Solutions Counsel, you will collaborate closely with Product Managers, service delivery, procurement, IT, information security, finance, tax, marketing, and regional legal teams to support the end-to-end development, productisation, and launch of global offerings.

This position blends complex technology contracting, channel and partner ecosystems, data protection, and emerging technologies including artificial intelligence. You will take ownership of sophisticated legal matters independently while leveraging the broader expertise of our global legal function to deliver pragmatic, commercially sound solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic legal business partner across SoftwareOne’s software, cloud, solutions, and services businesses.
• Support Product Managers and commercial stakeholders throughout the full product and service lifecycle, covering development, pricing, productisation, and global launch.
• Draft, review, and negotiate complex technology and commercial agreements, including software, cloud, SaaS, managed services, outsourcing, and professional services contracts.
• Structure and negotiate channel partner, reseller, distributor, strategic alliance, subcontractor, and technology marketplace ecosystem agreements.
• Design and implement bespoke contractual frameworks for new commercial models, including multi-party and indirect sales structures, alongside complex scopes of work and service descriptions.
• Advise stakeholders on artificial intelligence, data protection, privacy, and information security compliance, including negotiating Data Processing Agreements.
• Develop and maintain global legal templates, playbooks, standards, and contract automation initiatives while delivering practical training to business and legal teams.
• Collaborate with Regional General Counsels and local legal teams on high-value local customer, supplier, and strategic partner transactions.

What we need to see from you

Requirements

Essential

• Law degree and a recognised legal qualification to practice.
• Proven track record drafting and negotiating complex technology and commercial agreements, including bespoke frameworks built from first principles.
• Extensive background in software, cloud, SaaS, managed services, outsourcing, and indirect channel or alliance sales models.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with Product Managers and translate complex technical and commercial delivery models into practical contractual solutions.
• Strong command of data protection and privacy laws, including experience negotiating Data Processing Agreements.
• Fluent written and spoken English, paired with exceptional drafting, stakeholder management, and commercially pragmatic communication skills.

Desirable

• Prior legal experience gained within a multinational technology or IT services environment.
• Experience advising on artificial intelligence contracts, governance, and emerging technology transactions.

What’s on Offer

• The opportunity to influence global product strategy and emerging technology initiatives at a leading international software and cloud solutions provider.
• A flexible remote-first working arrangement supported by a collaborative, knowledge-sharing global legal team.
• Continuous professional growth working alongside cross-functional experts across international jurisdictions.
• A competitive compensation and benefits package tailored to your location and market standards

Why SoftwareOne?

SoftwareOne is a global software and cloud solutions provider and distributor, powered by around 12,000 people across more than 70 countries. But what really makes us SoftwareOne is our people: curious minds, different perspectives, and talented teams working together to solve real challenges and create meaningful impact. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to grow, explore new possibilities, and build a career that’s uniquely yours, while helping shape what’s next in technology.